FANTOM / FANATIC ATTACK – Fantomania Ultra CD

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Whilst TORMENTOR are generally considered to be the most important Hungarian underground metal band, I think that might just be becaue most people haven’t heard FANTOM, but thankfully the excellent Metal Or Die label is intent on fixing that by releasing tons of tributes to Fantom, and here’s the best one yet: the first half is their classic first demo from 1987, and the second is that demo covered in its entirety by contemporary countrymen Fanatic Attack. Fantom are something else: really dirgey dank sound with great ultra-distorted vocals and black metal-before-black metal treelo guitar lines that those in the know will recognise as being really particular to the Hungarian underground metal sound. Honestly, the fact that this came out in 1987, before most of the “second wave” should be considered massively significant, I can’t think of many band who were hitting out with shit like this back then. Total proto-black metal and 100% deserving of more attention!!